page_title: Panoramio
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Panoramio / History
caption_attribution_description: Español: Joaquín Cuenca y Eduardo Manchón, empresarios españoles y creadores del sitio web Panoramio.com. (fondo removido con Photosop 7).
context_page_description: Panoramio was a geo-located tagging, photo sharing mashup. Photos uploaded to the site were accessible as a layer in Google Earth and Google Maps. The site's goal was to allow Google Earth users to learn more about a given area by viewing the photos that other users had taken at that location. The website was available in several languages. Google acquired Panoramio in 2007. In 2009 the website was among 1000 most popular websites worldwide.
  Panoramio was launched in 2005, and closed on November 4, 2016, although the layer in Google Earth was available until January 2018. Image source URLs are still available.
  After the acquisition of Panoramio by Google, the headquarters were located in Zurich, in the office building of Google Switzerland, but subsequently were moved to Mountain View, California, US.
context_section_description: Panoramio was started in the summer of 2005 by Spanish entrepreneurs Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar. It was officially launched on October 3, 2005, and by March 19, 2007 it had archived over 1 million user submitted photographs. Three months later, on June 27, 2007 the number of photos reached two million. After a further four months, on October 25, 2007 the number of archived photos reached five million.
  In October 2006 Google began approaches to acquire the company, but these were rebuffed. However, on May 30, 2007 Google announced plans to acquire the website, and it was acquired by Google]] in July 2007.
  Manchón left the company in January 2010 to focus on a new project. He was replaced by Gerard Sanz Viñas. Cuenca left the company in May 2010.
  In May 2015 the number of uploaded photos (including deleted objects) exceeded 120 million. By October 8, 2016, 94,370,531 photos had been uploaded by 4,159,004 users, resulting in a total of 75,640,891,592 image views.
caption: Joaquín Cuenca and Eduardo Manchón, the creators of Panoramio.
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